Tsinghua University

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Beijing, China

This university, raised amid the Qing Dynasty's ruins in 1911, was initially financed by US-imposed indemnities after 1900's Boxer Rebellion. Its professors are highly esteemed: 36 are members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 32 belong to the Academy of Engineering. Of its 28,000 students, 2,400 hail from overseas.